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What has the US invaded and taken as part of its own country?
by michaelcampbell 6y ago
What has the US invaded and taken as part of its own country?
- luckylion 6y agoYou'll notice that the comment I replied to complained about invasions, not annexations. Something the US does more regularly than electing a new president. Other than that, the US has been annexing little recently, but in history quite a bit.
- hchz 6y agoPuerto Rico Texas (invaded by Americans and annexed) Guam Hawaii (USMC supported coup by European and American businessmen)
- artofgo 6y agoTechnically, Puerto Rico and Guam were already invaded by Spain before it was handed over to the US in 1898. With Texas, I believe it won its war of independence against Mexico and later annexed by the US (1835). If you're going to go back that far they US "invasions" is probably fairly tame compared to other countries of that time period.
- xref 6y agoUS interests overthrew the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893, and personally I believe a day of national reckoning over that is still inevitable. However people using it to justify Russia annexing Crimea in 2014 strains credulity.